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The songs of Faunus
Since
there are still people in this world that don’t understand Norwegian, we
will try to give an idea of the content of our songs in the better-known
English language. The first track on this record is called “Den dagen jeg forsvant” and this is mainly an instrumental song.
The title means ”The Day I disappeared” and the lyric is a
plain description of such a beautiful day. The protagonist can’t find
any rest in this world, and his solution is to disappear. Nobody knows his
present whereabouts.
“Virveldans” (Whirl
Dance) deals with the emptiness you feel when days just follow one another
and you don’t have any plans or programs for your life except floating
down the river like a leaf. The main character in the song leaves the city
for a walk in some misty forest, and after a while he can feel some
strange dancing take over his body. After this whirl dance he turns into a
kind of faun, a figure that is pervaded by nature.
“Sjælernes evige
bæven” (The Eternal Shivering of the Souls) tells the story of a
man who tries to deal with a normal life, doing the same as everybody else,
following the fog wherever it drifts, but it feels like howling in the
wind like the wolf packs do. At the end of the song he asks himself
whether love can be the meaning of life, but he worries that even his love
life is corrupted by desire, including desire for power and money.
Trollmann (Wizard)
begins with the description of a man dressed up with a very old-fashioned
costume and a hat like a magician. He goes down to the cliffs to light a
bonfire as a protection against darkness and frost, and he screams that
there is only one real wizard in this world. Nobody else can divide light
from darkness or create life and beings. Nobody can do that and nobody
should try, according to this strange man. Maybe he is the real faun?
In
Sultekunstneren
(The Starvation Artist) we are
introduced to a performer who has turned starvation into a mean of living.
He lives in a cage and is brought from city to city by a circus. He enjoys
the applause and cheers from the spectators while he is starving in his
cage, and his only problem is that although he can’t go on with his show
much longer he has to try his best.
Den
gjengrodde sti (The
Overgrown Path)
Englesangen (Song
of Angels) is about the angels and elves around us. They were very well
considered in the past, but nobody seems to care for them anymore. Maybe
the modern life is too stressful and we are too busy to take any notice of
them? Everything here around is obviously temporary, so why don’t we
just spend more of our precious time with the mystical beings around us
and within us? Be an angel!
Famle rundt
(Fumbling
Around) is a kind of rebellious song. We breath in polluted air and eat
poisoned food while fumbling around to find pieces of the puzzle that
makes our life. Old thoughts and truths make new and increasing problems
to the world, and only offer old solutions. Young generations should try
to find paths, values and dreams on their own and try to change the world.
Nothing less! This is not the time to complain. This is the time to fight!
Krigsmann (Man
of War) is about a warrior in a crowded battlefield full of smoke. Our
soldier is full of fear, old scars and wounds. He tries to sneak onto his
victims, but he knows that he is observed and that a small mistake will
send him, another charmer, into eternity. At the end of the song our
soldier is taking the long and rainy way back home, full of new scratches.
This story might be understood as an allegory of a Casanova trying to
conquer the heart of many women.